Interreg best practice

A variety of best practice has come from previous Interreg projects. Below are a couple of examples.

'We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.'

​– Anais Nin

The 2012-2014 CERTESS project

The 2012-2014 CERTESS project (Cultural European Routes Transferring Experience, Sharing Solutions) was an interregional project implemented by 12 regional partners of 10 European member countries, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the INTERREG IVC Programme.

It aimed to build a framework of how to develop and manage Cultural Routes through the adoption of route development best practices. These best practices were designed to add value to local cultural and natural heritage and promote local enterprises and products along the routes. The CERTESS project produced a Good Practice Database which you can find here: http://www.interreg4c.eu/good-practices/index-project=173&.htmlThe lead partner on the CERTESS project was The European Institute of Cultural Routes based in Luxembourg. The European Institute of Cultural Routes (EICR) is the technical agency set up in 1998 under an agreement between the Council of Europe and the government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

​The Institute advises and evaluates Cultural Routes already certified, helps new projects obtain certification and organises training and activities for route managers as well as coordinates a university network.

​This is the most important body for European cultural ​routes and collates and analyses best practice across all of Europe on issues ranging from pilgrimage route management to the promotion of cultural and natural heritage. It will also be advising the Interreg Europe Green Pilgrimage project.EGPN members The Route of St Olav’s Ways in Norway, and Santiago de Compostela are European Cultural Routes. Another Cultural Route, The Via Francigena,will also be involved in the Green Pilgrimage Interreg Europe project.

The 2012-2014 CHARTS project​

CHARTS – Culture and Heritage Added Value to Regional Policies for Tourism Sustainability – was an Interregional Cooperation Programme, Interreg IVC, of the European Union. Running from 2012-2014, it aimed to show that culture and heritage are important factors for sustainable development as well as for increasing a region’s tourist and economic potential.The CHARTS project developed 12 Good Practices on the sustainable management of culture, heritage and landscape, which you can find here: www.charts-interreg4c.eu/good-practices/. These include good practice on the promotion of local products and gastronomy, as well as the promotion and preservation of traditional skills and trades and the promotion of cycling for tourists.